It’s been a little bit, mostly because I was crazy busy in the two weeks leading up to the opening. I loaded up my car with more than 25 paintings and drove out to LA last Tuesday. I dropped off ten of those pieces at the scanning place and continued on to the gallery in Santa Monica with the rest.
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Artist in an Art Box
I’ve been having conversations with myself again—about a whole slew of topics. Then, applying the answers to my own questions, and turning them into projects, artist statements, and brainstorming things as notes and scribbles. I’m not sure where any of it is going yet. I mean, the ideas that are still abstract are maybe too abstract. Or something.
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I feel like my show is fully coming together, sans finishing one last painting. Before the Tragedy has been sitting with a burgundy red/purple underpaint that is still drying. I think because it’s been so cold, it’s just taking eons to dry.
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Even though my thinking brain has been like a bunch of clogged pipes, I’m still trying to envision what comes next for me. That is, after all the work is done for my solo show. I only know that writing has a lot to do with what comes next. I’ve been trying to write out my long-term and short-term goals over the last few days, but it’s a little like pouring molasses.
Continue readingWaiting & Wondering
I’ve been working on my last three paintings, a tiny little bit at a time. The paint just won’t dry! On any of them. I guess it’s okay because I do want to work on some other things, too.
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